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MMA to table Shariat bill in Balochistan Assembly QUETTA, May 31: The provincial chief of the Muttahida Majlis- i-Amal and MNA, Maulana Mohammad Khan Sherani, has said Shariat bill will be tabled in the Balochistan Assembly within the parameter...		Army holds farmers responsible: ‘Trouble’ at Okara military farms RAWALPINDI, May 31: Pakistan Army here on Saturday held the “miscreants” of Anjuman-e-Mazarain Punjab (AMP) responsible for turbulence at the Okara Military Farms, and said there was massive distortion of facts...
Indian troops shell Chakothi bazaar CHAKOTHI, May 31: Shops on both sides of nearly 800 metre long strip of the road in this border town were shut on Saturday with shopkeepers and residents fearing resumption of...		Musharraf calls for peace with dignity RISALPUR, May 31: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said Pakistan is a peace-loving country but it cherishes peace with dignity and honour....
PPP seeks ownership rights for tenants ISLAMABAD, May 31: The People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) said on Saturday it was shocked over the treatment meted out to the tenants of the Okara military farm....		SC won’t hear APNS petition on 3rd ISLAMABAD, May 31: The Supreme Court will not take up the constitutional petition filed by the APNS, challenging the Seventh Wage Board Award, on June 3, as one member of the...
Jeweller killed QUETTA, May 31: A jeweller was killed and a religious leader injured in two separate incidents on Saturday....		Sost border post to remain closed ISLAMABAD, May 31: The government has decided to keep the Khunjerab border closed for another one month owing to the fear of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars), which is still raging...
Jamali calls for fair water allocation QUETTA, May 31: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali on Saturday stressed the need for fair allocation of resources and better planning to boost the country’s agricultural production....		AJK buys vehicles worth Rs80m MUZAFFARABAD, May 31: The AJK government has purchased a number of vehicles during the past two years for the prime minister, ministers and other public office holders, spending more than Rs80...
Website blocking flayed ISLAMABAD, May 31: Pakistan People’s Party Chairperson Benazir Bhutto has condemned the alleged blocking of a Washington-based news website — South Asia Tribune — by the military government in Pakistan, “depriving...		16 protesters arrested in Gilgit GILGIT, May 31: As protest against the Islamiat curricula entered its fourth day on Saturday, the local police arrested nine people amid boycotts of classes and warning by the administration....
Gandhara students Continue boycott PESHAWAR, May 31: Medical students of Gandhara University continued their boycott of classes for the second consecutive day against the non-recognition of their colleges by the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council...		Four killed in accident QUETTA, May 31: Four persons, including two Frontier Corps personnel, were killed and 16 others injured on Saturday night after three vehicles collided with a truck parked in the middle of...
CPNE meets in Lahore on 14th KARACHI, May 31: The annual general meeting of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) will be held in Lahore on June 14 at 11.45am under the chairmanship of its president,...		Parcel bomb destroyed GILGIT, May 31: The police destroyed a locally-made 2.5kg parcel bomb on Thursday in Gilgit River....
MMA wants an end to deadlock HARIPUR, May 31: The Muttahida Majis-i-Amal central leader, Senator Maulana Sami-ul-Haq, said on Thursday evening that his alliance supports steering a middle course on the ongoing government-opposition deadlock on the contentious...		Former TMO charged with swindling money KOHAT, May 31: The anti-corruption department Kohat has charged a former tehsil municipal officer (TMO) with swindling Rs5 million by awarding contracts in violation of the prescribed rules and regulations and...
Projects okayed QUETTA, May 31: The NEC had approved various development projects for Balochistan for which Islamabad would provide funds, senior provincial minister Maulana Abdul Wasay said on Friday....		Interference in dist govt affairs slammed LARKANA, May 31: The speakers at a seminar, organized here on Friday by the Liberal Forum, urged the ruling as well as the opposition parties to fully support the devolution of...
Four more polio cases detected in Dadu DADU, May 31: Four more polio cases have been detected in four villages of Khairpur Nathan Shah taluka....		Four kidnapped SUKKUR, May 31: Four employees of the irrigation department were kidnapped by armed bandits near RD-44, Shahi Wah, on Saturday....
Nine injured in accident SHIKARPUR, May 31: Nine persons were injured when a truck overturned near Sultankot on Saturday evening....		PPP, PML-N flay MPAs’ arrest MULTAN, May 31: The PPP and PML-N organized separate token hunger strike camps on Saturday to protest against the arrests and torture of the Punjab assembly opposition members....
Special grant for Faisalabad dist govt FAISALABAD, May 31: The Punjab government has released a special supplementary grant of Rs214.112 million to the Faisalabad district government....		Woman commits Suicide KASUR, May 31: A woman allegedly committed suicide over a domestic dispute in Gillanwala, Khuddian....
200 booked for setting circus on fire GUJRANWALA, May 31: Some 200 people, including Mutahida Majlis Amal’s MNA Qazi Hamidullah, Gujranwala MMA information secretary Babar Rizwan and Abdul Malik Shah, have been booked by the Sabzi Mandi police...		SSP man among six awarded death GUJRANWALA, May 31: The sessions court on Saturday awarded death sentence to six people, including banned Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan’s former divisional president, life imprisonment to three others and Rs1 million collective fine....
Man shot dead over canal water dispute KASUR, May 31: Four people allegedly shot dead a man over canal water dispute in Chak 5 Rasoolpur, Pattoki, on Saturday....		High Court quashes FIR against woman PESHAWAR, May 31: A two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court here on Friday quashed an FIR registered by a person against his wife and her four close relatives under the...